scholarly journals Queer Performativity and Sexual Orientation in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Fadila Ramadhani ◽  
Ali Mustofa
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Negative Behavior ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Men's Psychology ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
And Gender

This research examines the queer performativity and sexual orientation in a novel entitled A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the signs of homosexuality by the protagonist George. The queer studies analytical perspective is used to analyze how the writer constructs the sexual desire of the main character through several events. The study aims to scrutiny the queer performativity and sexual orientation of the main character as a flexible and indeterminate entity exactly in accordance with Butler’s theory, besides, the writer uses Sedgwick’s perspective that explains and describes sexual orientation and gender. The result of the analysis shows some symptoms that exist in George’s character. Living with a different sexual orientation as homosexual is not an easy job when the surrounding is heterosexual society. The situation can create a confusion and over self-identity also an existence of life anxiety. This exhibits negative behavior towards homosexuals and excludes them from autonomous carrying out their identity and essence. This research can give the readers a deeper understanding of what the queer process idea in the field of literature or in the workplace, hence, this also can  be a new idea for future readers who are interested in discussing homosexual or gay men’s psychology.

scholarly journals Transgender Di Malaysia (Transgender In Malaysia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Amirah Akilah Abd Rahim ◽  
Hanisah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Farahwahida Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Qualitative Measure

This study analyzes the challenges and future of transgender issues in Malaysia as well as the views of Islam and Science to find solutions in addressing this issue. Transgender is a sense of personal identity and gender that contradict birth sex, with or without genital conversion. Unlike sexual orientation, transgender people are not necessarily homosexual but may bisexual or heterosexual. Many factors have contributed to these situations and there is also a dispute over the issue. In Malaysia, Islam and Christianity banned sex conversion meanwhile other religions accepted it. This study applies a qualitative measure through primary and secondary sources and found out that the challenges and the future of transgender are an important agenda of finding the solutions. The problem is studied from the perspective of employment, health, family, religion, self-identity, and community structure. However, human rights, psychological health and the unclear Malaysian law are challenges in addressing this issue. From the Science point, there are still many debates and ambiguities in research to prove transgender. While from the point of Islam that serves as a guide to life, these groups alter Allah's creation which is forbidden in Islam. Therefore, this study feels that this issue needs to be addressed and solved promptly. Improvements to existing laws without neglecting a humanitarian recovery are one of the earliest possible actions.

Evidence of sexual orientation and gender differences in mental health outcomes for violent crime victims

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Cramer ◽  
Martha Shumway ◽  
Amanda M. Amacker ◽  
Dale E. McNiel ◽  
Sarah Holley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
And Gender

The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Hela Cell ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
State Building ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
A Cell ◽  
And Gender

This essay reads the narratives of HeLa cell contamination as accusations of racial and gender passing. It argues that the passing narrative is much more complex, rarely confined to an individual’s autonomous will, and far more entrenched in state building and concepts of social progress than previously considered. I urge us to move away from the desire of the passing subject, and back to our own to ask after the sort of anxiety, excitement, and panic that animate our attempts to see, classify, and regulate bodies. Thus, what becomes significant is an examination of an “ethics of knowing” within science. The paper draws on a collection of correspondence, lab notes, published articles, and newspaper clippings related to Henrietta Lacks and HeLa from the George O. Gey Collection at the Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (1918-1974) and articles on HeLa published in scientific journals, science journalism, and cultural studies articles (1950-present). In doing so, it traces the narratives of science (and its complex of industries—journalism and cultural studies) and HeLa’s passing. Tracing the reactions to HeLa contamination, the paper asks after the ways national, racial, and sexual desire, fantasy, anxiety, and paranoia have animated the cells through time. Particularly it examines the agency of HeLa, a cell line that is passed through race and genders and ideas of mortality, as it makes clear its own vital, creative, and destructive forces.

Employee perceptions of the influence of diversity dimensions on co-worker interactions and daily organizational operations

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 810-819
Author(s):  
Atasha Reddy ◽  
Sanjana Brijball Parumasur
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Employee Perceptions ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Influences ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

This study assesses employee perceptions of the influence of diversity dimensions (race, gender, religion, language, sexual orientation, attitudes, values, work experience, physical ability, economic status, personality) on their interactiions with co-workers as well as on their organization in its daily operations. These perceptions were also compared and gender related correlates were assessed. The study was undertaken in a public sector Electricity Department in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The population includes 100 employees in the organization, from which a sample of 81 was drawn using simple random sampling. Data was collected using a self-developed, pre-coded, self-administered questionnaire whose reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings reflect that employees perceive that their interactions with co-workers are most likely to be influenced by attitudes, work experience and personality and that daily organizational operations are most likely to be influenced by race, work experience and attitudes. Furthermore, religion and sexual orientation are perceived as having the least influence on co-worker interaction and day-to-day organizational operations. In the study it was also found that employees perceive that race followed by gender influences day-to-day organizational operations to a larger extent than it influences co-worker interactions. Recommendations made have the potential to enhance the management of workforce diversity

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